14-04-2004, 07:57
Khatara: a tiny, isolated and landlocked mountain nation of idyllic natural beauty situated somewhere in southern Asia. For decades it has been below the radar of the major world powers and most media organizations. When a Maoist uprising erupted in the countryside five years earlier, little was heard from the mainstream press. When the military seized power in 2001, it barely made the back pages of major newspapers. But new discoveries and new unrest have placed Khatara back on the world map as an area of concern.
The first developemnts relates to the unrest which has gripped the nation for half a decade. The military's overthrow of the nation's constitutional monarchy under the leadership of General Ghyep under the pretense of ridding the country of Maoist rebels has in fact had the opposite effect. Despite crackdowns against supposed sympathizers and offensives against the peasant revolutionaries, attacks by the People's War: Khataranian Front (PWKF) have in fact become more frequent and more deadly to both the army and paramilitary police forces. Currently the poorly armed but spirited and fanatical rebels control 9 of the countrys 30 provinces.
The military regime's predicament has been further exacerbated by the actions of mainstream political opposition parties, which were banned in 2002 as part of a blanket ban on political activity. Activists from the Liberal Democratic Coalition, the Human Rights League, the Constitutionalist Party and the moderate Social Democrats have organized a nationwide week long strike and a series of demonstrations in the country's main city of Jantur. These have been met with brutal opposition by police forces, who have used clubs and submachine guns to dispere protestors.
But the nation has taken on international attention only after a series of discoveries by a team of international geological scientists. After a 2 year study it has been determined that Khatara contains massive unexploited reserves of national resources, including large oil deposits in Lake Yabur and, most interesting to international observers, significant quantities of Uranium in the far eastern mountains, which are currently controlled by the communist insurgents.
As it stands, whoever comes on top in this conflict will likely have access to the resources necessary to fashion Khatara into a powerful, modern industrial state with access to nuclear material. All sides in the conflict have called for international aid. General Ghyep has warned that the overthrow of his regime will lead to Khatara's fall to communism and has appealed for military and diplomatic assistance in restoring order and rooting out the rebels. The People's War has sent out admonitions to leftists and revolutionaries worldwide to come to the eastern regions and join their fight, welcoming the help of volunteer foreign revolutionaries as well as support from leftist-minded governments. Meanwhile, the main opposition groups seek neither guns nor power, only that international pressure from the UN or elsewhere be brought to bear on Ghyep to restore the consitution and step down.
The winner in this conflict will determine the fate of the Khataran people and have tremendous impact on the region as a whole. All sides stand ready to fight, and wait to see if their cries for assistance have gone heeded.
(This post is primarily background info. It is, or will be, an open international and/or character RP. Any nation who wishes to become involved may do so, as long as it's reasonable, possible, and makes sense. Nations using future technology are accepted, so long as that tech doesn't get involved in the conflict in a way that severely unbalances everything. I.E. no massive orbital bombardments =/)
The first developemnts relates to the unrest which has gripped the nation for half a decade. The military's overthrow of the nation's constitutional monarchy under the leadership of General Ghyep under the pretense of ridding the country of Maoist rebels has in fact had the opposite effect. Despite crackdowns against supposed sympathizers and offensives against the peasant revolutionaries, attacks by the People's War: Khataranian Front (PWKF) have in fact become more frequent and more deadly to both the army and paramilitary police forces. Currently the poorly armed but spirited and fanatical rebels control 9 of the countrys 30 provinces.
The military regime's predicament has been further exacerbated by the actions of mainstream political opposition parties, which were banned in 2002 as part of a blanket ban on political activity. Activists from the Liberal Democratic Coalition, the Human Rights League, the Constitutionalist Party and the moderate Social Democrats have organized a nationwide week long strike and a series of demonstrations in the country's main city of Jantur. These have been met with brutal opposition by police forces, who have used clubs and submachine guns to dispere protestors.
But the nation has taken on international attention only after a series of discoveries by a team of international geological scientists. After a 2 year study it has been determined that Khatara contains massive unexploited reserves of national resources, including large oil deposits in Lake Yabur and, most interesting to international observers, significant quantities of Uranium in the far eastern mountains, which are currently controlled by the communist insurgents.
As it stands, whoever comes on top in this conflict will likely have access to the resources necessary to fashion Khatara into a powerful, modern industrial state with access to nuclear material. All sides in the conflict have called for international aid. General Ghyep has warned that the overthrow of his regime will lead to Khatara's fall to communism and has appealed for military and diplomatic assistance in restoring order and rooting out the rebels. The People's War has sent out admonitions to leftists and revolutionaries worldwide to come to the eastern regions and join their fight, welcoming the help of volunteer foreign revolutionaries as well as support from leftist-minded governments. Meanwhile, the main opposition groups seek neither guns nor power, only that international pressure from the UN or elsewhere be brought to bear on Ghyep to restore the consitution and step down.
The winner in this conflict will determine the fate of the Khataran people and have tremendous impact on the region as a whole. All sides stand ready to fight, and wait to see if their cries for assistance have gone heeded.
(This post is primarily background info. It is, or will be, an open international and/or character RP. Any nation who wishes to become involved may do so, as long as it's reasonable, possible, and makes sense. Nations using future technology are accepted, so long as that tech doesn't get involved in the conflict in a way that severely unbalances everything. I.E. no massive orbital bombardments =/)